Steve Case, the co-founder of AOL, is in Honolulu and happened to snap a rather ominous-looking photo of the calm before the storm there. Iselle was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm before it made landfall Friday morning on Hawaii's Big Island.

Case was born in Honolulu in 1958, according to Biography.com. He went on to be an entrepreneur and business man early in his career before taking a job in 1983 with Control Video, a company that would later evolve into AOL. Two years later, Biography.com reports, the company changed its name to Quantum Computer Services. It wasn't until 1991 that the name AOL was born, the result of a company contest to select a new name. The person who picked the winning name: one Steve Case. The next year he became AOL's CEO, a position he would hold until he became chairman of AOL Time Warner, Inc. in what was one of the largest corporate media mergers ever, a $166 billion acquisition.

For more on AOL's history, click here. And for more photos of Iselle posted to Twitter, check out the slide at the top of this article.

A lot of hype for a non-event. No-one even mentioned the one that is hitting Japan tomorrow, or the huge category 5 storm in the Pacific between Hawaii and Japan, or the remarkable presence of 4 (count 'em, 4) hurricane/typhon type storms churning across the Pacific Ocean at the same.

This is ominous? Last night up in Port St. Lucie FL they had ominous. I was down in Tequesta and saw this monster of a storm develop that looked 10X worse than this picture. Since those things are ten for a penny here in FL, never thought to send pne to AOL. Alos as far as a real hurricane in 1998 I was on Hutchinson Island as a cat 3 storm barreled up the Florida coast--with 45 MPH winds on the beach (strong enough to lift the sand on the beach) the entire storm could be seen offshore. It was amazing.